5 Cool Commands in Linux

5 Cool Commands in Linux

Author: Tanny

Note: use "sudo apt install <command_name>" to install all command packages

1. pv Command

You might have seen simulating text in movies. It appears as, it is being typed in real time. Won’t it be nice, if you can have such an effect in terminal? 

# echo "codeonlinux[dot]blogspot[dot]com is a community of Linux Nerds and Geeks" | pv -qL 10

2. toilet Command

How about printing text with border in terminal, using an one-liner script command ‘toilet‘.

# while true; do echo “$(date | toilet -f term -F border –CodeOnLinux)”; sleep 1; done

3. xeyes Command

‘xeyes‘ is a graphical programs and as soon as you fire the command you will see two monster eyes chasing your cursor movement.

# xeyes

4. cowsay Command

cowsay is useful for output of desired text with animated character cow. What if you want other animal in place of cow? 

Check a list of available animals.

# cowsay -l 

# cowsay -f elephant-in-snake CodeOnLinux is Best 

# cowsay -f gnu CodeOnLinux is Best 

5. rig Command

This command generates a random identity and address, every time.

# rig

You can also Combine two Commands

#  rig | cowsay -f gnu

Author: Tanny